Tom,
Hearing an SPF complain that hoppers cars aren't interesting seems akin to an
SP/UP/ATSF modeler think that reefers
are drab or even a NYC guy get bored about varnish. What would I know; I just
model a pokey shortline.
Pieter has already pointed you in the right direction with the H31 if you want
a PRR car from the AM hopper. A GLa is
better created from an SHS twin. You'll want to poke me in the eye, but I have
got two cases of unlettered SHS twins
and a wad of Berwind and PRR dry transfers on hand. Guess what those have been
intended for!
For those of you who do find prototype hopper car variation interesting, there
may be a few more things to do with
the AM car. The DL&W had several series of longer 10 panel twins. (My first
mold ever was made to copy cast the ribs
right of the AM car body. Six castings were to be grafted on where 4 ribs were
removed, but I botched the shell. I
later obtained a new body, but never resurrected the project.) The DL&W later
rebuilt some of these cars with... 8
panels. Someone in the Dispatch suggested, and I further advocated, that the
DL&W rebuilt hopper be the convention
car for the Steamtown convention, but the idea fell on deaf ears. Too many
"hoppers are all the same," guys, I guess.
The longer VGN twins have already been mentioned, and if 34' is not too much
off for you, some SOU twins are
doable. But, in your neck of the woods, Tom, you might also want to consider
one of the CB&Q 33' twins that had a
horizontal side sheet seam about halfway up the car side. Archer rivets would
be just the thing for that.
Hopper cars are fun,
Earl Tuson
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